Introduction to Edge Transport Servers Exchange Server 2016 provides two types of roles, namely the Mailbox server and Edge Transport servers. Mailbox servers contain mailbox databases that process, render, and store data, the transport services that are used to route…
Microsoft Exchange Server Edge Synchronization Edge Subscriptions are used to populate the Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) instance on the Edge Transport server with Active Directory data. Although creating an Edge Subscription is optional, subscribing an Edge Transport…
Send connectors created automatically by the Edge Subscription Edge Subscription creates the following Send connectors: A Send connector named EdgeSync – Inbound to <Site Name> that’s configured to relay messages from the Edge Transport server to the Exchange organization. A…
Foreign Connectors Sometimes you have to deliver email messages to a system that does not support SMTP as a transport mechanism. One such example is a fax-gateway server. In this scenario, you can use a foreign connector, which uses the…
DAG Quorum and the File Share Witness Quorum is the voting process that the cluster uses to determine whether the DAG should remain online or go offline. If the DAG goes offline all of the databases in the DAG are…
Exchange File mode replication vs Block mode replication Database replication occurs between DAG members using two methods: (1). File mode replication (2). Block mode replication (1). File mode replication: During file mode replication, each transaction log files generated by the…
Database Availability Group (DAG) Concepts DAG Members The Mailbox servers that are members of the DAG and can host database copies within the DAG. A DAG can have up to 16 members and a File Share Witness. Quorum The process…
Enable MRS Proxy endpoint for remote moves The Mailbox Replication service (MRS) has a proxy endpoint that’s required for cross-forest mailbox moves and remote move migrations between your on-premises Exchange organization and Microsoft 365 or Office 365. You enable…
Microsoft Exchange Mail routing Message Content Conversion Process. Content conversion Content conversion is the process of correctly formatting a message for each recipient. The decision to perform content conversion on a message depends on the destination and format of…
How to get Exchange server build numbers/version numbers Get-ExchangeServer | ft Name,Edition,AdminDisplayVersion -autosize (or) Get-ExchangeServer | Format-List Name,Edition,AdminDisplayVersion Ref: